County

Letter: Concerns about Public Health

Dear Editor,

Your BOCC report last week included statements from the County Board of Health (i.e. the Commissioners) indicating that the County Health Director believes covid vaccines are dangerous and that the County no longer will provide those vaccines. Doing so relinquishes $58,000 funding that otherwise goes to vaccination programs. These decisions harm the public health, and the Commissioners must reconsider.  

Some background. Shortly after assuming office, the new Commission dissolved the established County…